Released as youssou n'dour/peter gabriel single, 1989 and featured on the youssou n'dour album "the lion".





We are shaking the tree...



Waiting your time, dreaming of a better life

Waiting your time, so much more than just a wife

You don't have to do what your mother has done, she has done

This is your life, this new life has begun

It's your day - a woman's day

It's your day - a woman's day



Turning the tide, you are on the incoming wave

Turning the tide, you know you are nobody's slave

Find your brothers and sisters

Who can hear all the truth in what you say

They can support you when you're on your way

It's your day - a woman's day

It's your day - a woman's day



We are shaking the tree...



There's nothing to gain when there's nothing to be lost

There's nothing to gain if you stay behind and count the cost

Make a decision that you can be who you can be, you can be

Tasting the fruit, come to the liberly(?) tree

It's your day - a woman's day

It's your day - a woman's day



Changing your ways, changing those surrounding you

Changing your ways, more than any man can do

Open your heart, show him the anger and pain, so you heal

Maybe he's looking for his womanly side, make him feel



You had to be so strong

And you do nothing wrong, nothing wrong at all

We're gonna to break it down

We have to shake it down, shake it all around



We are shaking the tree...




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